Dr. Hala
Gali-Muhtasib, Professor of Biology, graduated
with PhD from Kansas State University in 1990,
was awarded two postdoctoral fellowships,
1990-1993 spent at the Anticancer Drug
Laboratory in Manhattan, KS and 1993-1994 spent
at the Department of Physiology, Case Western
Reserve University School of Medicine,
Cleveland, Ohio . She joined AUB in Oct. 1994 as
Assistant Professor and was promoted to
Associate Professor in 1998 and later to
Professor in 2004. Her research career has
focused on chemoprevention and most of her
research endeavors have been related to cancer
prevention using naturally derived compounds.
She has examined the cellular and molecular
mechanisms of prevention by plant tannins,
vitamin E, essential oils of the Lebanese sage,
bioactive molecules from plants indigenous to
Lebanon, and thymoquinone extract from black
seed, most of which are ingested regularly by
humans and thus may hold promise as human
chemopreventive agents. |
